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Re: st: loop does not load file as stated
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: loop does not load file as stated
Date
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 12:55:05 -0400
set a read-only flag on the data file in the OS, and rerun. Then see
the line which fails in Stata.
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Jin-Hyun Bae <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have two levels of loops below. The top level cycles through years.
> Within this loop, the file Distance.dta is loaded, and then all drops
> all irrelevant year observations are dropped. When the second level
> loops have finished running, it should save this file as "year".dta
> and clear all.
>
> I think every time that the first loop goes back to the beginning the
> Distance.dta should be the same because I have not asked for any
> changes to be saved to Distance.dta. But when I run this code, it
> looks like all the observations that were dropped in the earlier loop
> remained dropped.
>
> I am almost certain that there is a simple explanation for this but I
> am completely baffled!!
>
> Jin
>
> --------------
>
> forvalues y = 1970/2004{
> use Distance.dta, clear
> keep if Year == `y'
> gsort -usa
> local N = _N
> matrix V1 = (POLCON[1] \ WBgovexp[1] \ WBdomcred[1])
> matrix rownames V1 = "POLCON WBgovexp WBdomcred"
> forvalues i = 2/`N'{
> matrix V`i' = (POLCON[`i'] \ WBgovexp[`i'] \ WBdomcred[`i'])
> matrix rownames V`i' = "POLCON WBgovexp WBdomcred"
> mahascore2 POLCON WBgovexp WBdomcred, point1(V1) point2(V`i')
> covarpop(one) compute
> replace poldist = r(mahascore_sq) in `i'
> }
> matrix drop _all
>
> matrix V1 = (WBpcGDP[1] \ Wbinfln[1] \ WBX[1] \ WBM[1])
> matrix rownames V1 = "WBpcGDP Wbinfln WBX WBM"
> forvalues i = 2/`N'{
> matrix V`i' = (WBpcGDP[`i'] \ Wbinfln[`i'] \ WBX[`i'] \ WBM[`i'])
> matrix rownames V`i' = "WBpcGDP Wbinfln WBX WBM"
> mahascore2 WBpcGDP Wbinfln WBX WBM, point1(V1) point2(V`i')
> covarpop(one) compute
> replace econdist = r(mahascore_sq) in `i'
> }
> matrix drop _all
>
> matrix V1 = (Power[1] \ Uncert[1] \ Indlm[1] \ Masc[1] \ Relig[1])
> matrix rownames V1 = "Power Uncert Indlm Masc Relig"
> forvalues i = 2/`N'{
> matrix V`i' = (Power[`i'] \ Uncert[`i'] \ Indlm[`i'] \ Masc[`i'] \ Relig[`i'])
> matrix rownames V`i' = "Power Uncert Indlm Masc Relig"
> mahascore2 Power Uncert Indlm Masc Relig, point1(V1) point2(V`i')
> covarpop(one) compute
> replace cultdist = r(mahascore_sq) in `i'
> }
> matrix drop _all
> saveold `y'.dta, replace
> }
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